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Thursday, November 3, 2016

The Shattered Vigil by Patrick W. Carr

Victory over the dark
forces during the feast of Bas-solas should have guaranteed safety for
the continent. Instead, Willet and the rest of the Vigil discover
they've been outsmarted by those seeking to unleash the evil that
inhabits the Darkwater. Jorgen, the member of the Vigil assigned to
Frayel, has gone missing, and new attacks have struck at the six
kingdoms' ability to defend themselves.

Just when the Vigil thought they had quenched the menace from
their enemy in Collum, a new threat emerges: assassins hunting the
Vigil, men and women who cannot be seen until it's too late. The orders
of the church and the rulers of the kingdoms, fearing the loss of the
Vigil's members altogether, have decided to take them into protective
custody to safeguard their gift. On Pellin's orders, the Vigil scatters,
leaving Willet to be taken prisoner by the church in Bunard. In the
midst of this, Willet learns of the murder of an obscure nobleman's
daughter by one of the unseen assassins. Now he must escape his
imprisonment and brave the wrath of the church to find the killer in
order to turn back this latest threat to the northern continent. @goodreads

MY REVIEW:

3.5 STARS

I can't actually do a proper review of this book
as I didn't know at the time I got a print copy from the publisher
(BethanyHouse) that is was the second book in the series. I definitely
want to go back and read the first book and then read this book again,
maybe I will understand more of what is really going on.

Some books are okay as a stand alone but for me, when it's high/epic fantasy, I need to start from the beginning.

I
did like some of the characters in the book even though there were so
many and I'm not quite sure what all happened to them in the beginning.

From
what I understand from the first book reviews, the Vigil think they
have taken care of the evil which I'm assuming is the Darkwater. This
makes people really weird and do some strange evil things. But,
something went wrong because there are still evil people out there
trying to unleash the evil. I mean it's not gone like they thought.

I
was very confused with the writing style as well. It took me awhile to
realize that the narrator was one of the characters named, Dura. I think
I finally got that figured out. So it took me a little bit to figure
out who was talking when and if this was Dura's thoughts. I still think
it will all be easier with the first book.

There are some
killings in the book as always. Some really made me mad but I won't say
what it was. I did like the fact that things could come at you without
you seeing it and kill you. I mean some of the Vigil could see blips of a
person or whatever and hopefully succeed at killing it. I thought that
was a great idea. Not in my world, but in this world it works out to be
pretty cool. Talking about being on your toes at all times.

I'm
guessing there is going to be another book the way it ended. I do look
forward to reading the series as a whole if that's what it's going to be
and starting at book one.